Rebel Threat

May 5, 1985

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR — ''Our aim is to convert every road into a river of blood with mines . . . Each stone into a mine and every helicopter into a coffin'': Joaquin Villalobos. The top commander of the leftist guerrillas in the El Salvador's eastern provinces said in a broadcast on the rebel radio station that the 400 mines planted in the last nine months caused 3,500 casualties in government forces. He promised more sabotage in San Salvador and attacks in the western part of El Salvador, which has generally been untouched by more than five years of war.